Official history is believing the murderers at their word.

The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.